“It is with genuine dismay, grief and sorrow that I write our communities to say that we have just received word Thursday morning that this will be our last newspaper.”

Among the reasons were the increase in the cost of newsprint.

The Trump Administration pushed a tariff on Canadian newsprint earlier this month, capping tariffs at nearly 17 percent. The tariff had been floated since March of this year and the markets priced in the increased costs from the tariffs in the months leading up to them going into effect in August.

The trade measures were put in place after one paper mill in Washington state complained about Canadian imports. North Pacific Paper Company, owned by One Rock Capital Partners, filed the request in 2017

On Wednesday, the U.S. International Trade Commission overturned the tariffs, saying there was no harm to paper producers.

That decision appears to be too late to save a newspaper serving the Gridley, Live Oak and Biggs for 137 years.